01x02 - Off the radar

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Title: Ze Weten Alles Van Je
ep. 02

Based on a true story
about a missing person.

The people who the journalist interviews are real.
Her experiences are dramatized.

The phone from the missing
Arjen Kamphuis...

went on for a moment last week,
the police says.

On the other side of the country,


his phone was traced.

Those are in my opinion
conflicting messages...

whose family and friend
also do not know...

and the police also does not
really know what to do.

If I have your phone and
turn it on...

and I do not know your code,
I could still make a call.

I could only call 911.

That means the phone has to always
make a connection...

with the cell tower.
even if I don't know your numbers.

But this was not only a connection
with the cell tower...

data has been sent and therefore
you need to unlock something.

Because only your phone
cannot receive sms.

The sim card receives the sms.

Because of that your phone needs to
be unlocked as well as the sim card.

A phone, that could be someone else.

But that's where it gets weird.
He is an cyberexpert.

Someone who explicitly knows
how to secure a phone.

stronger still, he did exactly
that.

So we thought...

when his phone went on...

it should be him.

So he must be alive.

Do I have to say who it was?
Or what he was?

In my opinion it is.
-For my it was.

Hacker and cybersecurity-expert
Arjen Kamphuis.

Hi.
-Hello.

Sorry, there was no one
else I could think of.

I don't know what to do.
I have been hacked.

Come in.

At that moment all scenarios
changed for us...

from, 'Has he had a hiking accident?'

to, 'he has traveled on
without telling us'.

If i were to run into him now...

he gets a firm kick in his ba*ls.

And after that we hug.

If he did it all on purpose...

he should have a good
explanation for that.

He really needs to say that.

Does he have mental health issues?
Did he want to go off grid?

Is there something going on why
he wanted to disappear?

We did not know anymore...

And we keep circling back to:

How could it be that his phone
made a connection?

And what was he doing op there?

If I bumped into Arjen today...

I would hardly be able to
look him in the eye.

My own total lack of
security measures...

clashes hard with everything
he stands for.

Maybe it's true.

And I'm only now beginning to
understand the man himself.

Arjen was very fond of good
journalism.

Because it was very close with
whichever he was doing.

For instance monitoring on the
powers that be.

Journalists who understood that
he was very eager to help.

So he made it his mission...

To protect journalists against that.

This unit is from 2005, for ANT.

At that time WiFi was not common.

It maybe hard, but you got this.

What?
-Ubuntu, open source.

Keep it off public networks,
and you'll be safe.

Arjen loved open source.

So everything had to be open source,
sou you could see...

what happened behind the curtains
of your devices.

So you could see China is
not spying...

or your own government
or the American government.

Whichever parties they may be.

That was his point.

I have to trust less in things.

And install Signal, There you can
find me.

Signal? Like that would make
a difference.

Yes it does.

Read 'Infosec' from Arjen Kamphuis.

Why do I get homework for
your story?

Just eight more days to go.
-No, Four.

Smart a*s.

Was worth a try right?

What Arjen did 10 days ago in
Bodo is still a mystery.

But what we do know,


in that city.

Hi.

Ok.

Even in Arjen last hotel, the
Scandic Bodo...

the higher-ups still wouldn't
say what they saw.

I could only see the room
Arjen booked.

There I met the cleaner.
Shaair Sheikh Hassan.

Without even asking...

I show him a picture of Arjen.

The fact he lied raises
many questions.

Did we really know him?
What was going on?

Maybe for me not that much...

because I got used to him
telling me not everything.

I did not tell him everything either.
That was part of our job.

But you start to wonder,
what was he up to?

Was it a secret mission?
And for who?

Or did he want to disappear?

Within the hackers-scene prevails...

not a very positive image of the
future.

Insomnia is not uncommon in
that scene.

Burn-outs happen too. More like,
f*ck it all, we pack our bags.

I'll start a commune faraway.

That is not an uncommon thought.

That same day the WikiLeaks employee
checked out of his hotel in Bodo.

After that he must've taken a
local train to Rognan.

After his mysterious stay in
Bodo Arjen leaves...

according to his bank records,
with the train to Rognan...

a nearby village.

In about 5 minutes we
arrive at Tverrlandet.

The story the cops told is that
he went from Bodo...

to Rognan with a train.

And he has been seen there around


Very quickly we got in his
mailbox...

where records appeared.

So we tried to piece it together.

It's doing something with me.

You are searching for someone.

You don't know if he is away,
had to leave, or wanted too.

Suppose he went into hiding
for a good reason...

it will be f*cked if we
went looking for him.

Then it becomes
a cat-and-mouse game.

Which side am I on?

Soon we decided not to engage
in that mental battle.

But just searching for him.

Arrived in Rognan Arjen gets
spotted that night 3 times.

each time by the same man.

Paul Gunnar Jansen
has seen Arjen multiple times...

recalls details and knows the
points in time.

That makes him a very reliable
witness...

in Arjens disappearance.

The Norse police had found some
stuff...

from the missing Dutchman
Arjen Kamphuis.

A Fisher found them in the water.

The police does not disclose
what has been found.

The first clue arises...

when this fisherman goes
on the water.

When I pulled it out of the water
I saw it was a bag for on a belt.

A pouch bag you could say.

When I opened it, I saw some
money in some pouch.

In another compartment
sat a passport.

With picture and name.

The first time we heard what
was found...

was his ID and his passport.

That was weird because
he was always joking...

it was staged if...

the first thing they find
is a passport.

He as always like:
I am sure an intelligence service...

or government,
wants to sidetrack this.

That was his regular joke

By then his stuff has been found.

Personal belongings too,
even cash money.

Then we start thinking:
He must have been drown.

Or he definitely had an accident.

because if you hit the road,
you'll bring cash with you right?

Lets start with the news.
There is news of Arjen Kamphuis.

Today was announced that his
kayak had been found...

in the area where more of his stuff
has been found.

He was kayaking?

Did he ever mention kayaking?

No. Never heard about 'going
kayaking'.

Is Arjen someone who does these
impulsive things?

Buying expensive things, yes.

But no, that was not known to me.

When I read back our
messages...

I see pictures of his swords.

And other tools and gadgets
he had.

But something about a kayak,
he never told us.

New information is popping up.

Some time ago we arrived there,
police was already present.

Lots of people are finding stuff
in the lake.

Police says they are taking new
information very seriously.

I think the police was requesting
camera footage...

of places where Arjens kayak
has been found.

So it says they had footage of
a salmon factory...

where in the early evening
a white object has been seen.

It was the police who
concluded...

on the footage of the salmon factory
something has been seen.

We even asked for the footage.
But we never got them.

We also don't know what
time the footage has been recorded.

So we don't know if 'early evenings'
is at 6 o'clock...

or at 7 o'clock.

Maybe they got a very strange
understanding of 'early evening'

and could that be 9 o'clock?

The strange thing is Arjen has been
seen around 9 by Paul.

So it is out of the question that
'early evening' had gone by...

or he had drowned.

Paul Gunnar Jansen saw Arjen
for the last time...

between 8:45 and 9:00
in the evening.

Did he go kayaking at that time
or did he came back?

Or he never went kayaking?

When he checked out at the hotel, he could
have 2 large bags with him

It could be we was carrying the kayak
in one of his bags.

He went kayaking.

That is where he was last seen
and where his kayak has been found.

If you look at that
the scenario would be...

that a kayak accident would be
the most logical.

What has been found from the kayak
is very interesting.

Because that could mean the
person had an accident.

What I don't understand is why checked
out of the hotel...

during the afternoon.

So you keep thinking: it's
getting dim...

rains very hard,
is very windy...

So I'm just going to set up my kayak.
With all my gear.

and get into the boat.

It just makes no sense.

TWO WEEKS EARLIER

The moment we found out
just before he left...

he bought a kayak,
and not a simple kayak.

but a foldable kayak
worth more than 2000 euro...

We only heard about that
somewhere in September...

when the kayak salesman
reported to us:

'That missing Arjen has bought a
kayak from us'

Everyone was surprised about
a kayak...

but also not that it happened.

What was weird
was we did not know.

It was an high tech gadget
that was very expensive.

That's something you brag
about.

In that sense it was a
weird story...

that he told us happily we was
going to Norway.

But not about his very nice new
canoe.

This is the Oro-kayak he was
interested about...

and also bought.

The kayak can be made very
compact.

In a sort of case.
For easy travel.

It's exactly the same size
that you can bring as luggage.

So like a case when you go flying.

It's really a gadget-kayak.

which above all, you can very
easily take with you.

the man behind the hotel's
desk told us...

'He carried two large bags.'

If you see how you fold that kayak...

you'll end up with two large bags.

I've got a picture of the kayak,
how it was found.

Maybe tell us about it.

Yes, this is also the picture...

that I got from the police
back then.

The police asked questions
about what you are seeing here...

about the kayaks damage.

On this picture you see it
has multiple holes...

and pressed in on multiple spots.

That had to happen with
a lot of force.

Why is there a hole in the kayak?

That thing is indestructible.

There are YouTube videos where
people...

try to wreck that thing,
but they couldn't do it.

This really happened after being
on the water.

Or the kayak...

The kayak has been in the water
for a longer time...

and maybe filled with water.

After that the damage could be done.

So it is not possible Arjen
sat in that kayak...

when the holes where created?

No, that is very unlikely.

Despite experts saying the hole
in the kayak...

could not have happened while
he was on the water...

the police are seeing it as the most
probable evidence for an accident.

An accident that doesn't fit
the timeline.

I would expect from a serious
police investigation...

that they do some real
forensic investigation.

Is this from a stone or is
that from a b*llet?

How did that hole get there?

Police in Norland asked the coastguard
for help...

with searching for Arjen Kamphuis.

After several e-mails and
phone calls...

rescue workers from the red cross
invited me...

to go on the fjord.

Also the place where Arjens kayak is
found is 'highly unlikely'.

I'm starting to wonder:

What if Arjen staged his
own disappearance?

Suppose that something happened,
and he wanted to disappear.

Or that somebody wanted him gone...

could it be that all of his stuff...

stuffed in his kayak and the
kayak dropped in the water...

with his phone in it and Arjen
went a very different direction?

One time I was walking
through "the Vondelpark".

Together with a friend and
we were talking about Arjen.

We stopped by a café to
get some drinks.

The radio was playing a song
from Acda en de Munnik.

That went: 'Herman crashed here
nearby in a corner'

That's about a man who sits on
a bench in the Vondelpark.

Who staged his own disappearance.

When I heard that song I
thought to myself:

I think this is what happened.

We call it: 'He pulled a Herman'

His kayak turned over...

got on land.

Thought to himself: Holy f*ck,
I could've been a dead man.

So he could start over and
'Pulled a Herman'.

at the moment that we were
asking some people around...

you'll get back sad stories
back from them.

Then you'll get back some things
he did not do right.

That it was not the first time
he went off-radar...

without letting people know.

So you start wondering, maybe he
had some mental problems...

which none of us saw.

Maybe we weren't as important to
him as we thought ourselves?

The police got more than 100 clues
about the missing Arjen...

who is missing since 20th of Agust.

The police is investigating a lead,
He could be hiding in a cargo ship.

We had a lot of conversations
about going off grid.

And a lot of conversations about
the state of the world...

and about that it might go wrong
at any given time.

What we would do.

We had a clear plan already made.

if things went south we would
pack our stuff...

and go to Argentina and start
a goat farm.

We talked a lot about that.

But that's not all.
-But not without me. No.

What Arjen did exactly on
that last night in Rognan...

nobody knows.

Nine o'clock.

Where was Arjen then?
On a cargo ship...

that would carry him away
to a new life?

Or on his kayak?
And had an accident.

There is something to be
said for all scenarios.

Still there is one problem.
In none of the scenario's

fits the fact that his phone went
on 10 days later...

in the south of Norway.

But the police came quickly
with an explanation.

Arjen Kamphuis was last seen in
station Rognan in Nordland.

Finding his passport, money and
a kayak in Saltenfjorden...

explains why the Dutchman
died in an accident.

We see this as the last
probable couse.

No body has been found yet.

The disappearance is a big mystery...

because his sim card made connections
with 3 different cell towers...



We have collected information
from a toll booth...

that led us to 2 truckers in
Eastern-Europe...

who are working
in lithuania.

The official statement of
the police is...

that some truckers had found
his stuff.

Somewhere on the way to the
south tried if...

Arjens phone was still working.

That the signal at Vikesa
came from those truckers.

Evidence shows the 2 truckers who where
working in Rognan...

have found the laptop and phone of
Kamphuis when fishinig.

The truckers explained they thought
somebody threw it away.

They thought it could be valuable
so they took it.

Just like that, we found the truckers!

And that explains everything.
Case closed.

Yes, we have no body,
but we know he is dead now.

His laptop, his USB-sticks.

Very typical about Arjen was
he never let them go.

Did you go somewhere with him,
than he held his backpack...

with laptop, on hick back
even if it was heavy.

And those USB-sticks he always
carried around his neck.

Those never went off.
Not even with showering.

Why would he take them off
if he went kayaking?

The last big puzzle piece was found.

We are happy we can explain those
phone signals.


If this clue was never examined...

we would be left with
a lot more question.

Sure, could I speak to those
truckers?

No not possible.

Some stuff would have been sold or
they don't have anymore.

But Arjens most valuable stuff
were still there...

are not sold.

You could see from some hard drives
some screws were loose.

It is without a doubt the police
tried to...

look what is on it.

we are still missing one
hard disk.

The truckers are questioned,
but not by Norse police.

They were asked by local...

They must've given such a
conclusive story...

so nobody else had any questions
further.

That's pretty weird, right?

In my mind that's very weird.

Something extra for the story.

Exactly a year after his disappearance.

Without hearing anything before
that time...

on some details.

Something doesn't add up.

It feels like I'm missing something
important.

Arjen Kamphuis died when his
kayak flipped over...

in a Norse fjord.

His stuff was taken by
unsuspecting truckers.

His phone traveled with them to get one
more Signal in Vikesa.

Clear story isn't it?

But we skip ONE step.

A step which the police and media
seemed to forget.

But not Arjens friends.

Before Arjens phone gave a
signal in Vikesa..., On the

day of his disappearance the phone
got another signal in Fauske

And that's not just any place.

When we googled 'Fauske' the
first thing we saw was...

there is a large Norwegian
intelligence agency base...

where they cooperate with the NSA.

Because of where his phone sent
the last signal...

raised a lot of questions with us.

And if you listened to what
Arjen had to say, it is no...

surprise that the thing he
warned everyone about...

could exactly have happened.